This edition of SingleStore's engineer showcase puts the spotlight on Charlie Joseph, a London-based software engineer and entrepreneur who has been programming since he was 13. Charlie is working on Analyse, a game analytics SaaS that uses SingleStore as its favored database due to its ability to handle high volumes of data without requiring extensive migration efforts. Charlie praises SingleStore's MySQL connector for making it easy to implement the database in his application and appreciates the self-hosting option, which has been crucial for his start-up's budget constraints. He also favors Laravel and Vue.js as frameworks and tools, respectively, due to their flexibility and ease of use. Charlie advises developers to focus on functional development over optimization, emphasizing the importance of shipping code quickly and refactoring later. Overall, Charlie credits SingleStore with providing a solid out-of-the-box solution that has streamlined his development process and enabled him to focus on core application features rather than infrastructure concerns.